Posted on 01/17/2015 11:00:23 PM PST by Nachum
Once again the mainstream media peddled the spoon-fed propaganda that world leaders "led the march" to honor the victims of the Paris shootings last week. Glorious photo-ops of Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko, David Cameron (oh, and not Barack Obama) were smeared across front pages hailing the "unity in outrage." However, as appears to be the case in so many 'events' in the new normal managed thinking in which we live, The Independent reports, French TV has exposed the reality of the 'photo-op' seen-around-the-world: the 'dignitaries' were not in fact "at" the Paris rallies but had the photo taken on an empty guarded side street...
A different perspective on the leaders portion of the march has emerged in the form of a wide shot displayed on French TV news reports.
It shows that the front line of leaders was followed by just over a dozen rows other dignitaries and officials after which there was a large security presence maintaining a significant gap with the throngs of other marchers.
The measure was presumably taken for security reasons but political commentators have suggested that it raises doubts as to whether the leaders were really part of the march at all.
The FTs Middle East correspondent Borzou Daragahi commented: Seems world leaders didnt lead Charlie Hebdo marchers in Paris but conducted photo op on empty, guarded street.
Ian Bremmer, a US political scientist and founder of the Eurasia Group, said: All those world leaders: Not exactly at the Paris rallies.
Another US commentator, Gerry Hassan, called the leaders contribution pseudo-solidarity.
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Perhaps even more ironically, nine of those countries represented in the march are in the final third of the World Press Freedom Index, compiled annually by Reporters Without Borders.
Algeria (121) - Represented by foreign Ramtane Lamamra
Mali (122) - Represented by president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
Ukraine (127) - Represented by president Petro Porochenko
Tunisia (133) - Represented by prime minister Mehdi Jomaa
Palestinian Authority (138) - Represented by president Mahmoud Abbas
Jordan (141) - Represented by King Abdullah II and Queen Rania
Russia (148) - Represented by foreign minister Sergei Lavrov
Turkey (154) - Represented by prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Bahrain (163) - Represented by foreign minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and Prince Abdullah Bin Hamad al-Khalifa
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"Je Suis Charlie" if and only if it suits our purpose at that very moment in time...?
Ha...over 3 million marchers.....and they could have made a better statement if they had marched through one of the NO GO muslim areas in Paris.
Very interesting
I’m giving them a pass on it. It would have been a blood ba th if something had happened I the crowd and law enforcement not able to reach tem.
Like the mafia guy marching and crying at the NYC funeral parade of a priest he just whacked... Or Bill Clinton faking tears at the funeral of an arkancide victim.
This is the one Obamatron skipped cuz of ‘security issues’
Yes.
Religious totalitarians [mohammedans] are quaking in their burkhas.
But the significant detail is that America's first Mooselimb president (do you need any other proof?) was absent.
The politicos respond to hype, not substance. Worse yet, the same will likely extend “disproportionate” support to the offenders.
And now the Western media, that has heavy Arab oil money investment, is now twisting the story to get us to forget much like they did after 9/11.
it’s called security
http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php
Despite the First Amendment, the US snuck in at #46 on that list.
But while it would have been hypocritical for the US to appear, (Canada, Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and most of the EU rank higher), the hypocrisy of it all clearly wasn't the reason that Holder skipped the photo op.
It shows Canada as blameless as Greenland, while coloring the United States piss yellow.
Yet the Canucks landed on Mark Steyn for "insulting Islam". They obviously deserve a deeper shade of yellow than the US.
To me it all seemed misguided
If they held up signs saying crush Islamic terrorism
Or Victory over Mohammedism
I felt sorry for Bibi
He’s a better man than that bunch
Thanks Nachum.
Have just passed that picture around...
The only march we need against Islam is of well-equipped and ready soldiers.
“Protest” marches against terrorists are about as useful as protesting against a rabid dog. No matter how many times you say, “nice doggie,” it ain’t gonna matter.
Yemen should have sanctions to make it begin to lop off heads of its terror exporters and not just its adulterous peasants.
But the terror meme is the glue holding some western civil societies together.
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